#stretch

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. ↗

— James Wolcott

#believe #best #bring #collections #enjoy

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#family #funny #growing-up #humor #laziness

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#characters #cutting #feet #fit #i

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#been #characters #fit #i #myself

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#already #cannot #child #children #dogs

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#began #better #better time #day #days

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#carpet #end #huge #like #me

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#idiot #just #keep #like #look

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#express #feelings #i #i write #idea